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March Cause Awareness: Women’s History Month

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About Women’s History Month The origins of Women’s History Month date back to 1978 when the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women created a “Women’s History Week” celebration. The commission selected the week of March 8th for their celebration to correspond with International Women’s Day.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar. iStudiez Pro.

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. The app also tracks response time from report to volunteer arrival and is shared with OpenData SF. Tracking Career Paths. Healthy Living.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

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Include "embedded assessment" (tracking hits, how long a player is on the site, etc). The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. Three Generations focuses on the California eugenics movement that was present during the early to late 1900s. THREE GENERATIONS.

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Our EveryAction Hero: World Central Kitchen

Everyaction

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California. It really showcases our efforts moving from beyond just relief to empowerment.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

As corporate algorithms minutely track each driver’s labor, workers are vulnerable to dismissal without recourse in response to customer dissatisfaction. Uber workers, for instance, are required to pay extortionary commission fees to the company that amount to 25 percent or more of all ride fees. million on political lobbying, and another $1.8

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. Half Moon Bay, California After 2.5 Bookshare was there with two offers. The light bulb went off and our guest exclaimed, “That’s exactly what our students need!”

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